There is only one plot. Things are not what they seem. — Jim Thompson When I set out to create these writing thoughts posts each week, I usually peruse a list of quotes by well-known authors and latch on to the first one to really grab my attention that day. Today that is exactly what…
Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life. — Lawrence Kasdan, screenplay writer and author Kasdan, the screenplay writer of some major motion pictures in the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises among other things, is 100% correct. Being a writer, and especially a daily blogger, means I’ve signed myself…
On Sunday, I spent the entire day at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival, all by myself this time so I could wander where I liked, listen to lots of different musical performers, and supposedly get some writing accomplished. This is a cool wooden dragon carving attached to a signpost that I thought would make the perfect featured…
We’ve arrived at just passed the last Friday of the month, so as has been my tradition, today I’m publishing something that isn’t about dragons at all, but rather is a finished piece from my archives that I take a fresh look at, often slightly revise, and post for your reading enjoyment. I’m sharing a piece…
[T]he human brain is driven, in large part, by its need to assess plans: providing motivation to act on good plans, and reducing motivation (which we experience as procrastination) to act on flawed plans. The problem for the would-be writer is that the brain does not necessarily distinguish between your vague and abstract goal, to…
Today is the Autumnal Equinox, the day of equal light and dark to mark the transition from Summer to Autumn. I thought finding an “equinox dragon” would be easy (since my Writing Thoughts post still isn’t done from last week*) but I got SO much more than I bargained for as I went Finding Dragons today… This…
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by…” — Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt So, you might have already figured it out, but I didn’t get the long, personal post I was planning for Friday finished in time. So instead, here is Cool, windy autumn sunset by Hungarian photographer and…
Here is a cute little dragon busy on her computer, which is what I was doing all night as well! This is Aria Draggie ID by American deviantartist Jessica Headley, posting as Aria-Siaosi. This is a picture Jessica created to be her own avatar back in 2009. I had a quick change of plans tonight,…
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. — Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain I’ve always liked this quote, although it wasn’t until I went looking for the source that I realized most of…
Apologies in advance, but this is not the next chapter of the Neeka Story, sad to say. That is still vexing me, despite the fact that once again, I know very well what I need to write. The words just aren’t coming, which is pretty much what happened with Finding Dragons too, and why I switched…
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